The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-11-19
A FEW WORDS WITH A FOOL.
Little Rock Gazette.

Of the "Little Rock edition" of the
 Gazette, issued Sunday, October 18th,
 between 10000 and II, ,000 copies were sent to points outside the state, all over this country and Europe. One copy was returned to the Gazette
 building with the following scrawled
 on the margin, but without legible
 post-mark:
 Don't send your rebel Davis sheet north. Give the triggers" chance to vote before asking for northern immigration.
 DEAR SIR: It is unfortunate you
 failed to send your name. The style of literature indicates that you are a devoted follower of Iowa Futile,
 three palsy Fairchild or the snubable
 Foraker. If you had forwarded the
 peculiar combination of letters by
 which you are known in the commu-
 nity embellished by your residence, we should have found pleasure in
 printing it. Information of this sort serves to locate the irreclaimable fools and cranks whom the lax management of the lunatlc asylums permits to
 roam at large. No doubt you are rat
 ting around hugging the delusion
 that war is still raging "down south, :" and that Lincoln has just called for "three hundred thousand more," to come down and suppress the rebellion, one of whom you will not be which if the road to Canada should keep open.
 Jeff Davis is now very old man. He is not disturbing anybody except hopeless fools of your kind. He is not getting up any rebellion; and if, down in Georgia, parsons who were in the same boat with him twenty five years ago choose to give him few evidences of personal regard, you ought to be thankful, because of the pretext the act furnishes your For akers and Fairchilds to howl about the "rebels." You ought to put your- self in charge of some one able to take care of your breed of political and sectional idiots, and come down to Arkansaw, while the great exposition is in progress. Properly advertised, your presence on the grounds would attract the largest crowd ever assem- bled in Little Rock, and prove bo- naliza for the managers. You would be surprised to learn that both north ern and southern men-Republicans and Democrats alike-are engaged in exhibiting our natural resources that they and their families reside here, and that they are encouraging their "aunts and their sisters and their cousins" still in the frozen-up north. to join them in building up this "rebep state. You wouldn't believe it, but it is true, these northern men send this "rebel- Davis sheet" by thousands over the north, and as a re- suit hundreds of persons thus ad- dressed are accepting the invitations and investing their money. We don't see how you are going to stop this without infecting them with your own form of imbecility but we have reason to believe it is not especially catching" just now and besides, there is consolation in the reflection that when a member of the noble guild of fools to which you belong turns up his toes to the dasics he is never replaced. To quote our mutual friend h-o- ho, "he never will be 
 Somehow the ''niggers" ap pear to be getting along. They doil't view things your way. The roads 10 the north are open railway fare is cheap and as they find money to travel about the state when business or pleasure suggests, they could find it to go beyond the line if convinced change would improve their condi- tion. Suppose you raise large immi- grafton fund, send down your agents, and offer free transportation and em- ployment to all who desire to leave this land of "rebef" oppression. The effort should be made about election day, so your agents could observe how the "niggers" are not allowed to vote especially out in the old Sixth ward.
 We fear you will be compelled to learn of the attractiveness of the south, and of Arkansaw particularly, until you conclude to leave a great big hole in the world by dropping out of it. It will be a sad day tor this world when you get beyond reach of the copy of the Gazette somebody down here occasionally sends, by gently waiting yourself into a re- idiots grave; but we are great, strong people, with wonderful recupemtive powers, and shall en- deavor to slop along, just the same, without you. The bare reflection brings tears large as that hundred pound pumpkin out at the exposition, and briny as boarding house mack erel but we wipe them on our sleeves, and resume our old place in the pro- cession, as if nothing had occurred.
 A friend of mine has A honsernaid